Success

So this past weekend we took the Jr. High and High School Youth groups up to Payson to a camp called Tonto Rim Camp. We took about a total of 37 people up there and it was awesome.

This camp was the first camp I have ever planned myself. I can't really say that I planned it all myself. My volunteer staff helped come up with ideas and put things together too, but it was the first camp that REY put together by itself with no other churches.

One of the reasons why it was awesome was because I didn't really have to do too much! I didn't have to do much because I had someone be the camp director for me so i didn't have to mess with too much. We put everything together before camp and all i had to do was show the camp director what we wanted and told him how to do it and gave him the stuff to do it and had the volunteers ready for him to pretty much make it run. The camp director i had was Allan Firman. I love that guy. Seriously, i do. I consider him a dad to me and his family is my family.

The camp theme was "Unashamed" and the rec theme was Military. It was such a simple camp, but so much fun. The speaker was great and the students got alot out of him. There wasn't really a "come up to the front" salvation message. He basically put it out there and let them chew on it and he built on that for the rest of the weekend. I'm so excited for next year's REY trip.

It was a great, first time planning our own camp, camp.